It’s the MoCCA recap and Jimmy is joined in studio by Producer Joe and pal Jon Hoche. Jimmy and Joe attended MoCCA Festival over the weekend and experienced some amazing small press comic book goodness! Jimmy interviewed Monica Gallagher, Dean Haspiel, Seth Kushner, Barbara Stok and Jamie Tanner. You’ll hear Dean, Seth and Barbara in this episode and Monica and Jamie in next week’s episode. Jimmy also cheated on CNI by appearing on 2 other podcasts last week. He was part of the annual Jay and Jack charity podcast for Autism Speaks and a guest on his friend Amber’s Vodka O’Clock podcast (available next week). Jimmy and Joe gave their recap and thoughts on this year’s MoCCA. Hint: It rocked! News includes: New Lego Dimensions game from Warner Bros., DC Comics leaves NYC for good, you can relive Superman 2 with Margot Kidder, Agents of SHIELD gets a spin-off, Olivia Munn is cast as Psylocke in upcoming X:Men film, new Spider-Man film will have teenage Spidey/no origin re-telling/new costume with “classic Spidey” feel, Brad Bird is working on The Incredibles 2, Lucy Griffiths joins AMC’s Preacher cast and director Michelle McLaren leaves Wonder Woman film over “creative differences”. Leave your iTunes comments! 5 stars and nothing but love!

Jimmy is joined in studio by Emily Edwards and CNI featured singer Rachel Felstein! They chat about the new Superman/Wonder Woman/Batman costumes and the upcoming 600th episode! News includes: Marvel announces new Star Wars artist, Cobra Commander gets key too the city of Springfield, IL, Rogue One will be first stand-alone Star Wars film, James O’Barr’s The Crow will get a film reboot starring Jack Huston, and more! Leave your iTunes comments! 5 stars and nothing but love!

The Vampire Cowboys Theater Company returns to CNI! Jimmy heads down to their rehearsal space for their new show Untitled Vampire Cowboys Project and is joined by pals/fellow Asians writer Qui Nguyen and actor Jon Hoche. Both, of course, are very familiar to the CNI audience as they’ve co-hosted many many times in the past. Be prepared for madness and hilarity! Jimmy and Jon give love to Qui on his Emmy win for Peg+Cat, they chat about the new Doctor Who trailer, praise Gail Simone on her new Comics Survival Kit Tumblr site and Jimmy’s obsession love passing fancy of YouTube sensation Zoella. News includes: new Batgirl creative team announced, Archie’s superhero line gets rebranded, Dredd illustrated screenplay out this week, Lucy Knisley brings something new, and Lucy Griffiths departs Constantine. Jimmy also gives a little heads up of his upcoming San Diego Comic Con coverage and boy howdy is it as crazy as always! Leave your iTunes comments! 5 stars and nothing but love!

Jimmy is joined by frequent guest co-host Jon Hoche and long time listener/pal Matt Brick (who flew in from Australia just for it! Okay, not for CNI but it was a bonus for him!). Jon has been actively reviewing/following The New 52 from DC Comics so we decided to review a ton of them! No news since we had so many reviews. Plus, the boys chat about Molly Crabapple’s Week In Hell, Garth Ennis pays homage to Jimmy in Chronicles of Wormwood, pal Grace Helbig has been blowing up on Attack of the Show, MTV is interested in the Locke & Key series, Jimmy’s nephew Max and friend’s son both are big Spider-Man fans, and Jon talks about bring Vampire Cowboys Theater Company to New York Comic-Con. Speaking of NYCC (click on the logo over on the top left!), they discuss the Podcast Arena and what podcasts will be involved and tease some special guests that will be signing with CNI! As always, Listener Feedback (great email from some newbie Dragon Con attendees), the Top 3 and more! Leave your iTunes comments! 5 stars and nothing but love!